Question

i) The students got a rank based on their merit. (Change into past perfect tense)​

Answer 1

The sentence can be changed into past perfect tense as follows:

i) The students had gotten a rank based on their merit.

What is the past perfect tense?

• In the field of English grammar, we can say a sentence is in the past perfect tense when the sentence illustrates an action that occurred at some point in the past.
• The formula by which a sentence can be written in the past perfect tense is had+past participle form of the verb.
• Hence, to change the above sentence into past perfect we will use 'had gotten' according to the formula.

Answer 2

$\mathfrak{Question :-}$

i) The students got a rank based on their merit. (Change into past perfect tense)

$\mathfrak{Answer :-}$

➡️ The student had gotten a rank based on their merit .

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